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June 2026

Genetic Currency: More Valuable than Gold
In an age where the word “racism” is often treated as the ultimate moral failing, I speak as a race realist.
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Community Capture
Audience capture is the phenomenon where content creators slowly become prisoners of their audience.
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Stillness in the Noise
There’s a form of suffering that comes not from being attacked, but from being misunderstood by others.
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The Plausibility Scale
Carl Sagan’s maxim—“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”—is one of the most quoted lines in skeptic culture.
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Why "End the Fed" Is Pure Ignorance
When I used to tell people that gas used to cost 99 cents during my time in high school, I believed it was proof that we were all getting robbed by a…
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Algorithms Program You to Stay
When I still had an Instagram account, I couldn’t sit down to a meal without first making it a photoshoot.
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On Audience Capture and the Price of Clout
Most people think audience capture is a money problem: get monetized, start chasing engagement, and start saying what pays.
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No Meaning Without God?
There’s an argument I always hear from religious apologists so often it’s practically liturgical: without God, there’s no meaning. It sounds like a real…
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LGBTQIA: Tolerance Is Not Endorsement
Scrolling on 4 Chan last year, I stumbled upon a video of a man cutting off his erect penis with a mini circular saw.
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